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Re: What Japanese words have you learned from Anime?

When you watch anime you ussualy learn insults like pervert, b*stard, b*tch etc. And you also learn common conversation skills. There are better ways to learn the language i recall. Even though it is very fun to watch

Re: What Japanese words have you learned from Anime?

Originally Posted by Forbuki

Alot i guess, first one would probably "baka"

Ha ha, that's indeed one of the words you heard the most while watching animes, particularly in the Shounen ones.

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." "I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.""Imagination is more important than knowledge."

Re: What Japanese words have you learned from Anime?

ちょっと ○ Chotto ○ Can mean "no", "wait", "um", or can be said before another sentence to make the speaker sound nervous
いきます ○ Ikimasu ○ Can mean "I'll be off now", "go", or "I'll be going"
クリカラ ○ Kurikara ○ Not really a Japanese word, but I still learned it from an anime. ( ^~^) The Kurikara Fudo is the personification of Fudo as a Dragon Sword.
すてき ○ Suteki ○ Can mean "beautiful" or "amazing"
待って・ちょっと待ってを ○ Matte/Chotto matte wo ○ Can mean "wait" or "wait up" or "wait for me"
また音 ○ Mata ne ○ Can be "good-bye" but in a way that's like 'see you tomorrow'

Re: What Japanese words have you learned from Anime?

The streaming provider I watch Bleach from always shows at the top of the screen the Japanese word (like Zanpakatu) and then says the English translation (Soul Slayer) so without that I wouldn't know half of the significance of the names of everything lol. It also translates for all of the bankai names.

Re: What Japanese words have you learned from Anime?

Originally Posted by Jabberwocky

ちょっと ○ Chotto ○ Can mean "no", "wait", "um", or can be said before another sentence to make the speaker sound nervous
いきます ○ Ikimasu ○ Can mean "I'll be off now", "go", or "I'll be going"
クリカラ ○ Kurikara ○ Not really a Japanese word, but I still learned it from an anime. ( ^~^) The Kurikara Fudo is the personification of Fudo as a Dragon Sword.
すてき ○ Suteki ○ Can mean "beautiful" or "amazing"
待って・ちょっと待ってを ○ Matte/Chotto matte wo ○ Can mean "wait" or "wait up" or "wait for me"
また音 ○ Mata ne ○ Can be "good-bye" but in a way that's like 'see you tomorrow'

｢ちょっと｣ technically means "a little / a bit", but is often used by itself to convey disapproval or aversion to something. For example, if you go out with someone and they suggest something that you don't approve of, you would say "chotto... (it's kinda... / that's a bit...)" instead of outright saying something like "I don't like it", which is obviously a lot more rude. The person you're talking to will catch the hint and hopefully change the subject.

｢いきます｣ literally means "I'll go/I'll leave". However there are many different ways of saying this depending on the situation.
+ When leaving a residence or some place where you're staying for an extended period of time, you usually tell your family/roommates "いってきます / ittekimasu", which has the combined meaning of "I'll be off now", and "I'll be back (soon)".
+ When in a more formal situation such as a meeting, you would say "失礼します / shitsurei shimasu", which literally means "I'll be rude", but is a polite way of letting people know that you'll be leaving ahead of them. In short, it's similar to the English phrase "I'll excuse myself now".

｢ちょっと待ってよ｣ Is a simple command like "wait a sec". It wouldn't be 待ってを、since を / wo is the particle for object nouns, and よ / yo is for emphasis. They sound similar sure, but they're not interchangeable.

｢またね｣ is for "see you later". You don't use the kanji "音" (romanized as "ne", "on", or "oto"), since that means "sound", and that has nothing to do with the saying.

When in doubt, just use the hiragana or look up the meaning on a kanji dictionary site. Tis what I do lol. So far you seem to have a good grasp of the alphabet. Nice job and I wish you good luck in your studies.

Re: What Japanese words have you learned from Anime?

I remember writing all the japanese words I learnt from animes into a notebook a long time ago. And the list is pretty long so I'd rather not type them all out xD
hmm~ well, the first japanese word that I can think of off the top of my head would be.. "ochinchin". ^^

I have this book....

I have this "learn Japanese" type book at home that o study and because of it I memorizd hiragana, katakana, and some kanji I'm still learning but I'm getting there.
Am I the only one who didn't know my school had japanese classes and a anime club? Can I say.... heaven?

Re: What Japanese words have you learned from Anime?

From what I know, Japanese verbs don't reflect the object of the sentence (him, her, me, etc) like in most Latin languages such as Italian.

やめて [Yamete]: "Stop (doing something." Shorter and more informal version of [Yamete kudasai], which is a request.)
やめろ [Yamero]: "Stop (doing something." This is more of a demand than a request.)

Although as you may have already seen in many anime, women are most likely to use the formal/polite [yamete (kudasai)] over [yamero], whereas boys and men are usually more rough with their speech, so they use [yamero] more often.

Re: What Japanese words have you learned from Anime?

Originally Posted by RyuTama

From what I know, Japanese verbs don't reflect the object of the sentence (him, her, me, etc) like in most Latin languages such as Italian

Eh? This is off topic but I'm gonna ask anyway because I can :P
Does Italian actually have a way of marking the gender of a verb's object?
Can you say "Stop [him]!" and "Stop [her]!" without using a pronoun?

Re: What Japanese words have you learned from Anime?

Originally Posted by animeyay

Eh? This is off topic but I'm gonna ask anyway because I can :P
Does Italian actually have a way of marking the gender of a verb's object?
Can you say "Stop [him]!" and "Stop [her]!" without using a pronoun?

Well it doesn't mark the gender unless it's reflexive (or reciprocal... can't remember lol). As a matter of fact verbs are the same when they're conjugated for either men or women. And I kinda derped when I said "object", I meant to say that the subject is marked by the verb. >.<

Like say, "fermalo!" and "fermala!" are "stop him!" and "stop her!" respectively. So yes, you need a pronoun for objects in a sentence (at least as far as I've learned anyway, lol).

However if it were the subject, then the verb can indicate who or what is doing the action without using a pronoun.

Examples:
"I'm stopping..." would be "(Io) sto fermando...". "Io" is the pronoun for "I" but is unnecessary since "sto" is the first person conjugation form of "stare (to be)".

Re: What Japanese words have you learned from Anime?

Italian looks crazy with those contractions though...If you didn't tell me, I wouldn't think "fermalo" and "fermala" had pronouns embedded in them lol.

And it would seem Italian developed a way to express the present progressive tense. In Latin, "I stand" and "I am standing" would be exactly the same, so only context would help determine which one to use. Oh, did I use "stand" in my example? I sure did, because stō, stāre, stetī, status is the Latin verb for "to stand" so your example certainly threw me off. I almost though stare was the verb for "stop" there XD

Re: What Japanese words have you learned from Anime?

Originally Posted by animeyay

And it would seem Italian developed a way to express the present progressive tense. In Latin, "I stand" and "I am standing" would be exactly the same, so only context would help determine which one to use. Oh, did I use "stand" in my example? I sure did, because stō, stāre, stetī, status is the Latin verb for "to stand" so your example certainly threw me off. I almost though stare was the verb for "stop" there XD

Well actually, "stare" is the infinitive verb "to stay/to be (doing something)". It's kinda confusing with the verb "essere", which also means "to be", but in the sense of "to be (someone/something)". So in a way, the Italian "stare" is actually pretty similar to the Latin "stāre".

Hmm... if I had to make it easier to understand (and to attempt to keep it relatively on-topic with the thread lololol), "stare" would be like the Japanese ｢います｣ and "essere" is like ｢です｣。